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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Realm

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

realm.io

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

realm.io/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Microsoft

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2008

2010

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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